Welsh Quotes

• At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

  Matthew Rhys

  Home, Long, Lazy

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• I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

  Matthew Rhys

  Morning, Sea, People

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• We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

  Matthew Rhys

  Cousin, Stupid, Character

  "Matthew Rhys: from Patagonia with love" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.

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• You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Thinking, Friendly, Fabulous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

  Graham Coxon

  Thinking, Band, London

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• But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

  Richard Cobden

  Half, Better Half

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.404

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• God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pieces, Cheese

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Doors, Sky

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1963). “Angles and Britons”, Cardiff, University of Wales Press

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Death, Trainspotting

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

  Jonah Lomu

  Inspirational, Rugby, Exciting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

  Bob Norster

  House, Rooms, Watches

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• After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Ethnicity, People, Age

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• I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

  Steve Fowler

  Beautiful, Sound, Poetic

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• Thy tongue
  Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
  Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
  With ravishing division, to her lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Sweet

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]

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• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Irvine Welsh

  Selfish, Trainspotting, Concepts

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• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, People, Silence

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.8, Random House

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• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  Irvine Welsh

  Literature, Pages, Blank

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Names, Common

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Males, Proud, Membership

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• Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Expression, Politician, Boundaries

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• All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

  Taron Egerton

  Speak, Feels, My Friends

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